Word: planking
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...struggle which the French have made for months to maintain their gold standard has reached heroic proportions. Their inflationary experience of a little over a decade ago convinced them that a decision to devaluate is nothing short of an invitation to disaster, a voluntary walking of the plank. It's much more than a political creed; it's a national frame of mind, the result of bitter experience...
There was no anti-New Deal plank in Governor Talmadge's platform. His plea for reelection was based on the claim that he had fulfilled every pledge made in his 1932 campaign, and on his promise that if reelected, he would pay the State out of debt and further reduce taxes...
...There will probably be a third party in 1936. The next President will be a man who knows what it is to work in the sun 14 hours a day. That man will be able to walk a two by four plank...
...spent 14 years wheedling money from charwomen and millionaires. For it he has sacrificed many things, among them the liberal principles he once held. His Board of Trustees is packed with the reactionary industrialists who gave him money. One liberal professor after another has walked Pitt's plank. Ralph E. Turner was the last...
...newshawk asked bluntly whether it was a fact that Mr. Wallace had sided with Frank to make Peek walk the plank, now sided with Davis to make Frank walk the plank...